Gunship is one of my all-time favorite bands. They’re basically the kings of synthwave, and their music is both amazing and rife with cultural and media references that really strike a chord for many of us who grew up in the `80s and early `90s. In celebration of their new album, “Unicorn”, they’re currently holding a contest where they’ve invited ( Read more... )

Note to anyone still following this account: Unless you play Elite Dangerous, this post isn’t going to make much sense, but enjoy! :-) I’m posting this here so I can link to it elsewhere without giving spoilers.

I flew to Hyades Sector FB-N B7-6 to check out Maelstrom Taranis. Combat would clearly have been pointless, so I opted for speed and ( Read more... )

Police Officer: "Who's the President of the United States?"
Blade: "An asshole."
-Blade Trinity

While I can still say this…

I love my President.  He’s a good, decent, compassionate, thoughtful person, and a brilliant, deep thinker. He’s imminently competent, and fully understands the complexities of the job and the subtleties of domestic and international policy.

He is flawed. There are things he’s failed to do. On more than one occasion he has ( Read more... )

*tap* *tap* Is this thing still on?

Okay, for obvious and terrible reasons, the dangers of being a sexual minority have been at the forefront of the public consciousness for the last couple of weeks. I’ve tweeted and retweeted and facebooked about the tragedy a *lot* in the last week, so I’m not going to rehash that here, but there is one peculiar ( Read more... )

Lately, my situation at work has been awful. At a time when we were just able to stay on top of the workload, someone in the home office decided to cut IT staff across the board. My Minion, unfortunately, was one of the victims. It was worse for him of course, losing his job through no fault of his own at a time of year when most of the industry is ( Read more... )

The opening of a new Terminator movie is a holiday in our house, so femetal and I took the day off as usual. We actually caught an evening showing the night before it officially opened, and saw it twice more on opening day (both Real 3-D and IMAX 3-D ( Read more... )

I have so much to be thankful for. So very, very much. Family, friends, umfriends, work, society as a whole. I can’t possibly detail it all, so I’ll focus on just a couple of things ( Read more... )

* When they criticize you, love them for teaching you humility ( Read more... )

The worst thing that’s ever happened in my life occurred a year ago tonight. (Yes, I’m including the deaths of loved ones here.) With a single sentence, my world was ended and the path of my life was changed forever.

”I can’t be in a relationship with you anymore.”I was shocked and gutted. The wound was a mortal one ( Read more... )